Someone on Amazon started the discussion, "Does anyone think that walruses are plants?". Responses varied, but some were: "Are you insane? What has this world come to?! Walruses are ANIMALS" and "What the hell is everyone talking about? Has everyone gone mad"I wrote, "Actually, plants live and grow inside and outside of the walrus'sbody. This intimately interwoven matrix of plant and animal cellsmakes the walrus more akin to lichens, those wonderful green flakesseen growing on the sides of trees. Walruses are truly giganticlichens.As well, an insightful contributor above pointed out that jellyfishare related to clouds, and so they are. You see, coelenterates arecolonies within which there is little specialization of cells. Themost notable are the "stinging cells", which can be empiricallydiscovered also in cirrus clouds. Simply fly naked through one ofthose at >= 20,000 feet, as I often do, and you will have your proof.Plus, if you cross your eyes slightly and look at jellyfish, you cantell that they are really dense clouds, floating gently, changingform, stinging fish, and occasionally looking red and stormy."